During the pandemic, health misinformation blossomed and again the companies were slow to act, cracking down after years of allowing anti-vaccine falsehoods to thrive on their platforms.
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Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter promised to crack down on disinformation, but the problems have only worsened.
presidential election, when Russia used social media platforms to try to influence voters. The need to regulate Big Tech more effectively came into sharper focus after the 2016 U.S. It's the first major attempt to set rules and standards for algorithmic systems in digital media markets," said Ben Scott, a former tech policy advisor to Hillary Clinton who's now executive director of advocacy group Reset. "The DSA is nothing short of a paradigm shift in tech regulation. The rules then won't start applying until 15 months after that approval, or Jan. It still needs to be officially rubber-stamped by those institutions, which is expected after summer but should pose no political problem. The tentative agreement was reached between the EU parliament and the bloc's member states. Repeat offenders could be banned from the EU, he said. The biggest online platforms and search engines, defined as having more than 45 million users, will face extra scrutiny.īreton said they will have plenty of stick to back up their laws, including "effective and dissuasive" fines of up to 6% of a company's annual global revenue, which for big tech companies would amount to billions of dollars. The EU's new rules should make tech companies more accountable for content created by users and amplified by their platforms' algorithms. While the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have filed major antitrust actions against Google and Facebook, Congress remains politically divided on efforts to address competition, online privacy, disinformation and more. The act is the EU's third significant law targeting the tech industry, a notable contrast with the U.S., where lobbyists representing Silicon Valley's interests have largely succeeded in keeping federal lawmakers at bay. The EU continues to set the global standard for bridling Big Tech "With the DSA, the time of big online platforms behaving like they are 'too big to care' is coming to an end," said EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton.ĮU Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager added that "with today's agreement we ensure that platforms are held accountable for the risks their services can pose to society and citizens." The Digital Services Act, one half of an overhaul for the 27-nation bloc's digital rulebook, helps cement Europe's reputation as the global leader in efforts to rein in the power of social media companies and other digital platforms. The law will also force tech companies to make it easier for users to flag problems, ban online ads aimed at kids and empower regulators to punish noncompliance with billions in fines. BRUSSELS - Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta will have to police their platforms more strictly to better protect European users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content under landmark EU legislation approved early Saturday.Įuropean Union officials clinched the agreement in principle on the Digital Services Act after lengthy final negotiations that began Friday.
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